The United Kingdom fully supports draft resolution A/72/L.55, which is before us today. It reaffirms the inalienable right of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees to return to their homes in a safe and dignified manner, regardless of their ethnic origin. This is a humanitarian and human …
I would like to thank the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Theodor Meron, and the Prosecutor, Mr. Serge Brammertz, for their briefings to the Council today and their recent reports (see S/2018/347 and S/2018/471).
The Residual Mechanism has now entered…
I thank you, Mr. President, and I join colleagues in welcoming you to the presidency for this month and saying that the United Kingdom looks forward to working with Russia. I also thank Poland for its very distinguished presidency of the Council.
The United Kingdom remains extremely concerned by th…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of this important resolution (resolution 2418 (2018)).
The situation in South Sudan is appalling. Thousands have been killed. More than one fifth of the population is on the verge of famine, more than half is food-insecure and a third have fled their homes. …
I thank the Special Coordinator for his very sobering briefing.
Echoing Ambassador Haley’s concern, I condemn — without qualification and in the strongest terms — yesterday’s mortar and rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel. Indiscriminate attacks against civilians are unacceptable and they are unj…
I join other colleagues in welcoming the three Ministers for Foreign Affairs to this important meeting. I should also like to thank the briefers from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for their account and for the work they and their teams do on th…
I would first like to thank Mr. Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, for his very clear and frank briefing, which comes at an important time for Burundi, in the wake the referendum. I should also like to thank Ambassador Lauber, for his thoughtful briefing, particularly the s…
The United Kingdom is a proud member of the Peacebuilding Commission. We are pleased not only that it has become a more flexible and agile body but that it has raised its level of ambition and delivers real impact.
We see three opportunities for accelerated progress. First, the Peacebuilding Commis…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2417 (2018), the first to recognize the clear link between armed conflict and hunger. We thank the Netherlands, Kuwait, Sweden and Côte d’Ivoire for their work.
Millions of civilians in situations of armed conflict continue to suffer alarming l…
I thank our briefers from the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel), the African Union and the European Union (EU). I think that the briefings by all these representatives together are a perfect illustration of the partnership approach taken so far and wh…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. I also thank the Secretary-General, Director-General Daccord and Ms. Edwar for briefing the Security Council today. I would like to thank Ms. Edwar in particular for reminding us of the human suffering and the human tragedy of war.…
I thank Ambassador Skoog for his briefing. Let me also very much welcome the briefing of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, and the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/429). We fully support his work and efforts as Special Representative to deliver the Unite…
On behalf of the United Kingdom, I too would like to express our gratitude to the Polish presidency for organizing today’s important discussion, and to thank our briefers for their statements this morning.
There are few values more important to the United Kingdom than upholding international law. I…
I just wanted to comment on the Syrian representative’s last statement, in which he said that the Syrian Arab Republic will spare no effort to arrive at a political solution. That is obviously a welcome statement. I would like to ask him if he could tell the Council, or is willing to say today, that…
I had not intended to speak today in the Chamber, but I wanted to respond to some of the things that we have just heard. I will therefore take this opportunity to thank Staffan de Mistura and his team for all their work, which is not proving as fast or as productive as all of us would like, but I th…
May I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun and Ambassador Vieira for their briefings. Although he has left us because of technical difficulties, I would also like to thank the Executive Director Fedotov for his briefing. It was important to hear from him given the specific threat of organ…
I thank Mr. Mladenov for his sobering briefing. I would like to thank him and his staff for everything they are doing to try to calm down the violence. I also echo his tribute to the medical staff on the ground, as well as his appeal for facilitatiting the evacuation of the wounded.
We have seen a …
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing.
In February, the United Kingdom celebrated 10 years of diplomatic relations with Kosovo. In the same month, the European Commission adopted a strategy for a credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans. Koso…
As this is the first time I personally take the floor this month, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming your new role. I would like to join my Peruvian colleague in thanking the Governments of Myanmar and of Bangladesh, but also our Kuwaiti colleague, for all the excellent a…
I thank you, Madam President, for providing this opportunity for a candid and constructive discussion with our Force Commanders, whom I thank for their briefings earlier and whom I am putting on notice that I intend to ask them many questions. I also thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix for everyt…
